Feds want Zimmerman, any way they can get him
This no longer is about George Zimmerman, it’s about a Department of Justice serving political interests.
There’s a reason we stand up for the rights of individuals like George Zimmerman against an overreaching State.
It’s not just about the individual. It’s about all of us, and the reality that there but for fortune could go you or I.
The highly politicized Department of Justice desperately wants to bring federal charges to placate the race-agitators, and has joined in the witch hunt.
Via The Orlando Sentinel, DOJ solicits email tips in Zimmerman civil rights probe (h/t readers and commenters):
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday afternoon appealed to civil rights groups and community leaders, nationally and in Sanford, for help investigating whether a federal criminal case might be brought against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one advocate said.
The DOJ has also set up a public email address to take in tips on its civil rights investigation.
Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – who earlier in the day joined calls for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, said that later in the afternoon, she joined a U.S. Department of Justice conference call to discuss the prospects.
“They were calling on us to actively refer anyone who had any information,” that might build a case against Zimmerman for either a civil rights violation or a hate crime, Arnwine said. “They said they would very aggressively investigate this case.”
Arnwine said the call was convened at about 3:30 p.m. by Tom Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, and included representatives from the FBI, and several federal prosecutors, she said. DOJ officials also said they would open a public email address so people could send in tips on the case.
That email address, which is now in operation, is Sanford.florida@usdoj.gov.
In addition to Arnwine’s group, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Laura Murphy, Washington Chapter head of the ACLU; and several national, Florida and Sanford-based “human relations” groups participated, Arnwine said.
During the call, DOJ officials announced they had set up a way for people to send email tips that could help aid in their investigation. The email address will be operational later this week.
This no longer is about George Zimmerman.
It’s about a Department of Justice which does not deserve our trust and is a threat to our liberties.
Update: Hey, call me old-fashioned. I don’t think the government should be in the business of identifying political targets first, trying to figure out if a crime was committed second. In an era in which everyone is guilty of something, this is a prescription for prosecutorial tyranny, as Prof. Glenn Reynold wrote in Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime. See also my prior post, Racialized prosecutorial indiscretion in the Zimmerman case.
This is taken from Legal Insurrection. Do go there and bookmark that site for daily reading.
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Because “real” blacks watch MSNBC and CNN, while fake blacks watch Fox News wit dem creepy a#s crackers.
Note that there has been a lot of outcry from those who support the prosecution for the lack of blacks (i.e., zero blacks) on the jury.
UPDATE (Katie) – CNN Anchor Carol Costello incorrectly stated that all six of the women on the Zimmerman jury were white. This is false. Five jurors were white and one juror was Hispanic.
The revelation that a black juror was cut due to being a Fox News viewer is important. Supporters of the prosecution in this case have been complaining for weeks, especially after Zimmerman was found not guilty Saturday, that there weren’t any black men or women sitting on the jury to judge a case involving a black man [Trayvon Martin]. It turns out there was a black juror assigned to the case, but because he or she watched Fox News, they were cut from the case.
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Putting His Cart Before The Hearse
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Feckless Crapweasel John McCain sells out again, hands Obama a decisive victory on nominations
So much for Senate Republicans standing on principle. Mitch McConnell’s cretinous caucus doesn’t have any principles. They could have called Harry Reid’s bluff. They could have stood up for Senate rules. They could have waved the filibusters of John Bolton, Miguel Estrada, and Robert Bork in Dear Leader’s face.
But, no. They appointed John McCain of all people to “negotiate” with Harry Reid over the nuclear option. And our favorite RINO promptly caved to Dingy Harry’s threats. So instead of Mutually Assured Destruction, we get neutered and Obama gets to push his socialist agenda into high gear.
Richard Cordray, the man Obama illegally appointed to head Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren’s Orwellian Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, can keep his job. Seventeen RINOs followed McCain into the abyss on his behalf.
The National Labor Relations Board will remain a fully-paid subsidiary of the SEIU.
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George Zimmerman’s Brother Robert: We Have Concerns Our Phones Are Being Tapped By This Administration (Video)
Robert Zimmerman, the older brother of George Zimmerman, told Bill Hemmer on America’s Newsroom that the Zimmerman family has concerned that their phones may be tapped by this administration due to the ongoing investigation of George Zimmerman after his acquittal last week.
Robert said the family is texting George and not calling him so that they don’t give away his location.
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Bow and Arrow porn…
